Pandemic Poolside
It isn’t too often that a deadly pandemic suddenly sweeps the planet, upending all of human life as we know it...
In late March, 2020, with Covid rapidly spreading in the US and forcing the shutdown of life as we know it, I found myself alone in my downtown apartment, isolated, and terrified by everything that was happening. Upcoming travel plans for the tropics were cancelled. Grasping the magnitude of what was happening and seeing it unfold before my eyes felt like living a nightmare. I spent hours and days reading and hoping for better news, but none came. For some reason, or maybe actually just some heavier-than-normal substance (abuse), I decided that I needed to change my situation for the better. It was up to me to be the change that I wanted to see in the world! So I did what few, if any - and certainly none that I knew - would ever do to make proverbial lemonade out of lemons. This time, my friends were not around to talk me out of it either.
